# Portrait of Louis XVI

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CALLET, Antoine-François](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/callet-antoine-franois-r7318faae2ba16d>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 278 x 196 cm

## Commentary

In May 1774 Louis XV died of smallpox at the age of sixty-four, and was succeeded by his twenty-year-old grandson, Louis Augustus, who became Louis XVI.

## Related artworks

- [Portrait of King Louis XVI in Full Coronation Regalia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/callet-antoine-franois-r7318faae2ba16d/portrait-of-king-louis-xvi-in-full-coronation-regalia-r55475250acd848>)

## Attribution

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